Description
2ND COMPANY MUSKETEER CREST HELMET, KNOWN AS THE "BLACK MUSKETEERS". Silver-plated copper shell decorated with the musketeers' cross with gilded border and fleurs-de-lis. Band with motto "Alterius Jovis Altera Tela". Brass band. Crest in dragon wings decorated with lightning bolts and foliage, rosettes of chinstraps in a row topped with a cut-out Minerva head motif, and velvet-lined, silver-plated copper chinstraps with scales (some scales missing). Black mane brush caterpillar. Silver wire tassel fastening (one missing, one detached). Later leather and black silk inner headpiece. A.B.E. First Restoration period (1814-1815).
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2ND COMPANY MUSKETEER CREST HELMET, KNOWN AS THE "BLACK MUSKETEERS". Silver-plated copper shell decorated with the musketeers' cross with gilded border and fleurs-de-lis. Band with motto "Alterius Jovis Altera Tela". Brass band. Crest in dragon wings decorated with lightning bolts and foliage, rosettes of chinstraps in a row topped with a cut-out Minerva head motif, and velvet-lined, silver-plated copper chinstraps with scales (some scales missing). Black mane brush caterpillar. Silver wire tassel fastening (one missing, one detached). Later leather and black silk inner headpiece. A.B.E. First Restoration period (1814-1815).
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